The inquiry by Lord Saville of Newdigate into Bloody Sunday is important for
the future of government relations with the judiciary as well as for
Northern Ireland politics. The Prime Minister, David Cameron, told the House
of Commons yesterday that “none of us anticipated that the Saville Inquiry
would take 12 years or cost almost £200 million . . . There will be no more
open-ended and costly inquiries into the past.”

After the report by Lord Denning into the Profumo affair in 1963, the leader
of the Labour Opposition, Harold Wilson stated in Parliament that an
“impossible and invidious task” was placed